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Towards a "prescribing license" for medical students: development and quality evaluation of an assessment for safe
David R M Jansen1, Carolina J P W Keijsers2, Michiel O Kornelissen3
1Department of Geriatric Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, P.O. box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. david.jansen@radboudumc.nl.
Purpose:
This report describes the development and validation process of an assessment with national consensus in appropriate and safe pharmacotherapy.
Methods:
A question-database on safe prescription based on literature of pharmacotherapy-related harm was developed by an expert group from Dutch medical faculties. Final-year medical students concluded a 2-year education program on appropriate and safe prescription by one of nine assessment variants of 40 multiple-choice questions each. An expert panel of professionals (n = 10) answered all database questions and rated questions on relevance. Questions were selected for revision based on lack of relevance or poor test and item characteristics.
Results:
A total of 576 final-year medical students of the Radboud University was assessed. There was no significant difference in performance between students and content expert group (p = 0.7), probably due to learning behavior. Out of 165 questions, 59 were selected for revision.
Conclusion:
Joint national effort from a team of experts in prescription and pharmacotherapy is an appropriate way to achieve a valid and reliable last-year student drug prescription assessment.
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